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Ed Harris (Love Lies Bleeding) and Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) are on Bill Murray’s (Lost in Translation) “must kill” list in an exclusive to Collider trailer for Riff Raff. To celebrate the film’s impending at-home arrival on March 21, we’re thrilled to give audiences a fresh look into the star-studded crime comedy. Joining the leading trio of A-list actors is a celebrated lineup of talent that also includes Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live), Gabrielle Union (Bring It On), Lewis Pullman (Salem’s Lot) and Emanuela Postacchini (The Seven Faces of Jane).

Knowing you’re at the end of a road is never easy. Life comes in stages, but closing the book on some of your most impactful years can leave emotional scars on your soul, filling you with memories, desperation, and regret. In Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl teaser trailer, model, actress, and author Pamela Anderson smiles through the pain, mustering up her courage for one last step into the spotlight. Opening on December 13, 2024, at AMC Century City for one week only and in theaters nationwide on January 10, 2025, The Last Showgirl transports us into the mind of an entertainer on the verge of calling it quits.

Here’s the official synopsis for The Last Showgirl courtesy of Roadside Attractions:

“The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones, and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamourous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.

Pamela Anderson leads an all-star cast in the upcoming drama film The Last Showgirl, receiving praise from director Gia Coppola for her daring and heartfelt performance. Anderson's recent documentary Pamela, a Love Story was critically acclaimed and nominated for two Emmy Awards, shedding light on her childhood, career, and marriage to Tommy Lee. The Last Showgirl is a dream project for the producers.

Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, and Billie Lourd are starring in Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl. The upcoming drama follows a seasoned showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. As a dancer in her fifties, she struggles with what to do next. As a mother, she strives to repair a strained relationship with her daughter, who often took a backseat to her showgirl family. Anderson, who portrays the film's titular character,...

Mexican actor Sergio Calderon has sadly passed away. Reportedly, per Entertainment Weekly, Calderon died on Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles while surrounded by family. He had been in the hospital recently while battling pneumonia, but Calderon's rep says that it's not known if that was the cause of death. Calderon was 77 years old.

Calderon was a veteran actor with dozens of credits on the big and small screen. He is perhaps best known for his role at Captain Vallenueva in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He would reprise his role by voicing the character in the video game adaptation. Calderon would sometimes post about the movie on his Twitter account, sharing behind-the-scenes photos with co-stars like Johnny Depp and Keith Richards.

Remembering this moment while Shooting #PiratesoftheCaribbean with #JohnnyDepp. I played Capitan Villanueva pic.twitter.com...

Gravitas Ventures released in North America last month.

Great Escape, the Los Angeles-based sales division of Yale Entertainment, has boarded international sales for EFM on The Seven Faces Of Jane, the multi-director project starring in-demand Gillian Jacobs.

Roman Coppola produced the romantic comedy-drama and Jacobs inhabits the titular role of a woman who tumbles through a gauntlet of surreal, beautiful and heartbreaking adventures.

Jacobs directed the first and last scenes of The Seven Faces Of Jane and the other directors include Gia Coppola, Boma Iluma, Ryan Heffington, Xan Cassavetes, Julian J. Acosta, The Hangover breakout Ken Jeong, and Alex Takacs.

From his work on promising indie films like The Seven Faces of Jane to music videos for Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar, and more, producer Jason Baum clearly has a finger on the pulse of pop culture and creative innovation. The Hawaiian-born producer has worked on a number of Emmy- and Grammy-award-winning projects, and netted his first Grammy win for his work on Kendrick Lamar's music video for "Humble". Baum is in the running again in 2023, as he produced Lamar's "The Heart Part 5" music video, which will be competing against Adele's "Easy on Me", BTS' "Yet to Come", Doja Cat's "Woman", Harry Styles' "As It Was", and Taylor Swift's All Too Well - The Short Film.

Baum appears particularly drawn to projects designed to push their respective mediums forward. He produced two videos for Beyonce's The Lion King companion Black Is King and the augmented reality-enabled short film...

“It’s Only Life After All,” a documentary about the folk-rock duo Indigo Girls, is for fans only. For those who are not fans, and for those who only dimly remember their initial albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, this Sundance Film Festival Opening Night entry is a rambling, unrevealing look at their lives and careers that director Alexandria Bombach allows to run over two hours without focusing her material.

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers met in grammar school, and Saliers was one grade ahead of Ray. During the extensive interviews with them in this movie, a hazy picture emerges of Ray as the driving force of their act, or the one with the most ambition, and Saliers as the more elusive or distant of the two. They came up the hard way through gigs in bars and clubs, and their breakout hit was the song “Closer to...

Anna Kendrick might be best known for her comedic and musical roles, but with her latest feature, Alice, Darling, the Oscar-nominated performer reminds viewers she has some seriously impressive dramatic chops. Directed by Mary Nighy, the new film is an intimate, unsettling examination of a woman and the effect her increasingly disturbing relationship has on her life. Considering the plot, it would've been easy for Nighy and screenwriter Alanna Francis to take a more heavy-handed, frightening approach. Luckily, though, Alice, Darling is a respectful and piercing character study that also serves as an excellent showcase for Kendrick's talents.

On the surface, Alice (Kendrick) has it all: A solid job, two best friends to gab with at wine bars, and a sexy, attentive boyfriend, Simon (Charlie Carrick). However, from the way Alice carefully rehearses what she's going to say to Simon to her tendency to compulsively pull her hair out, it...

“Everyone struggles to find a version of themselves that they like,” so says Jane, as played by Gillian Jacobs, in the new, spellbinding exquisite-corpse film “The Seven Faces of Jane.” She’s talking to a young teenage girl who’s run away on her quinceañera, but she’s talking to herself too.

Jane has something of an identity crisis, or rather, one that’s been created for her. A single mother with time to spare while her daughter is away at camp, Jane sets off on an adventure, or several of them, actually. What follows are seven different stories by different directors, none of whom know what the others are doing.

This form is known as an “exquisite corpse,” as is defined at the start of the film, which functions almost like a game of Telephone. The directors in question, curated by Roman Coppola, are Jacobs herself, Gia Coppola, Boma Iluma,...

Avan Jogia has had a very interesting career. The life of a Nickelodeon kid can send one down many paths, some less fruitful than others. Jogia was that rare child actor who successfully transitioned into “adult” work without a loud announcement of his maturing. His acting career has had him dabble in numerous genres and stories, showing off his natural charisma and talent. In between acting, Jogia has kept busy producing music with his brother and their band Saint Ivory, and writing a book. Now, he has ventured into directing feature films, and his directorial feature debut is the stunning neo-noir and comic book-inspired Door Mouse.

Door Mouse tells the story of Mouse (Hayley Law), a comic book writer/artist who works at a burlesque bar run by Mama (Famke Janssen). A friend and fellow burlesque dancer, Doe Eyes (Nhi Do), doesn’t show up for work one night, which...

The Seven Faces of Jane is the kind of film that has to start out with an explanation. Before the film begins, we are told that this film is a blind collaboration between multiple filmmakers, an exquisite corpse structure where each new team continues the story of Jane, played by Gillian Jacobs. Each filmmaker had no idea what the filmmakers before or after them were doing with this character, with the exception that each story would focus on Jane. The Seven Faces of Jane is an intriguing concept, a curious way of telling a story, and ultimately, a flawed idea that shows through example why this isn’t a type of story we’ve seen before.

A film originating from the vision of 8 talented directors, The Seven Faces of Jane is an anthology film consisting of 8 short films that explore the journey of a titular character, Jane, played by Gillian Jacobs. The directors each provide their unique vision of this character in diverse settings to demonstrate the varied perceptions of Jane as she undergoes a trial of weird, beautiful, and painful adventures. There was great risk involving the success of the project due to each filmmaker adopting a completely different style and tone from the other. However, it is both the beauty and peril of such a one-of-a-kind project. This experimental drama switches between directors at random, each unaware of the previous director's work, using the "exquisite corpse" game concept.

Seven directors come together to tell one woman’s story, an experimental tale of a woman driving around Los Angeles. Each vignette was directed in secret, with each director unaware of what would come before or after their film segment. The Seven Faces of Jane is therefore an ambitious undertaking, but it isn't worth taking on as an audience member.

Gillian Jacobs stars and directs in The Seven Faces of Jane. The story follows the titular Jane as she drops off her daughter at a sleep-away camp and then drives off into what is essentially a mini odyssey, where she experiences many obstacles and connections. Contributing to this creative endeavor, known as Exquisite Corpse, are directors Julian Acosta, Xan Cassavetes, Gia Coppola, Ryan Heffington, Boma Iluma, Ken Jeong, Alex Takacs, and of course, Jacobs herself, who directed the opening and closing segments of the film.

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The Seven Faces of Jane is a film by eight different directors. That would be odd enough, but even further, each director created their segment of the film with little idea of what the others were working on. The style of art creation, where each piece is created separately and then assembled at the end is often referred to as an "exquisite corpse". Starring and partially directed by Gillian Jacobs, The Seven Faces of Jane promises to be a fascinating viewing experience. Now without further ado, here's everything you need to know about the film.

We are hardly ever the same person on a day-to-day basis. Sure, we might have the same body or the same identity, but the events of our lives mold and shape us in a multitude of ways, and we could see the world a whole different way over the course of 24 or 48 hours. As such, cinema is an expressive medium, but there hasn't been a film quite like The Seven Faces of Jane, a daring exquisite corpse project that sees eight different filmmakers exploring the journey of our titular character, a wandering soul who finds herself warped throughout the course of surreal, life-altering events. To represent such a modifying life, Jane's story is told through the lens of a variety of storytellers — all of whom have a different vision for what could or should become of this woman. As this first trailer shows, it results in a dazzling experience.

The lineup of films premiering in the narrative, documentary, short film and episodic selections at the 2022 Bentonville Film Festival’s competition program have been released today, the Bentonville Film Foundation announced. The annual festival is set to run in-person from June 22-26 in Bentonville, Ark, with a virtual component having an extended run from June 22 to July 3.

Led by “Thelma and Louise” star and vocal feminist Geena Davis, the festival aims to amplify female, non-binary, LGBTQ, Bipoc and people with disabilities’ voices in entertainment. In collaboration with founding partner, Walmart, and presenting sponsor, Coca-Cola, this year’s programming includes a wide array of storytelling with more than 82 of the competition program from creators who identify as female or gender non-conforming. Additionally, 65 of the creators identify as Bipoc, Asian, or Pacific Islander and 62 identify as LGBTQ. The vast majority of onscreen leads — 90, to be exact — are women or gender non-conforming.

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Exclusive: Gia Coppola (Palo Alto) is in production on superfans: screaming. crying. throwing up., a documentary that she’s directing and producing for global nonfiction entertainment studio Xtr and Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan’s Aggregate Films, via her company Detour.

The film celebrating the culture-shifting influence of boy band superfans is based on Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKotB to BTS, a book by journalist and lifelong fangirl, Maria Sherman. It dives into the fangirl experiences, movements and markets of the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s, spotlighting the devoted girls, women and queer fans who have turned boy bands — including New Edition, New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, *Nsync, One Direction and BTS — into multibillion-dollar franchises that dominate both the airwaves and pop culture phenomena.

For decades, fangirls like Sherman have had their musical infatuations demonized as frivolous or feminine, and superfans will shed new...